The passenger jumped out the door without the slide inflated. TACA Flight 110 quick documentary (The History Guy) Posted by fightin tigers on 7/20/18 at 3:34 pm 0 0 If you aren't following The History Guy on youtube you should think about doing so. Captain Dárdano then started the APU to regain electrical power and attempted to restart the engines. On 24 May 1988, TACA Airlines Flight 110, a Boeing 737 flew through a thunderstorm and suffered a dual engine flameout. TACA International Airlines Flight 110 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight between San Salvador, El Salvador, to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA with an en route stop in Belize City, Belize. They had survived with barely a scratch. The captain of the flight was Carlos Dardano. TACA Flight 110, May 24, 1988 TACA, a small airline based in El Salvador and founded in 1931, was so proud of its brand-new Boeing 737-3 that when Flight 110 encountered severe hail, the pilots’ first concern was that it might damage the paintwork. While in the final decent, they recognized that they wouldn’t have enough energy to make it to Lakefront. After an engine change and minor repair, it was flown to a maintenance facility for additional inspection. Dárdano lost an eye in that incident. Attempts to advance the throttles only resulted in overheating of the engines, so they were once more shut down to avoid catastrophic failure. When the crew realized they were unable to restart the engines and could not glide to MSY (New Orleans International) or NEW (New Orleans Lakefront), they elected to land the airplane on a levee near NASA's Michoud Facility. TACA Flight 110 - Wikipedia It landed on the grass levee adjacent to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility. On this day, the flight proceeded normally, taking off from Belize City's Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport and flying over the Gulf of Mexico toward the Louisiana coast. This incident never gets enough attention compared to other miracle landings. On descent, the captain noticed weather up ahead. NTSB investigators determined that the aircraft had inadvertently flown into a level 4 thunderstorm and that water ingestion had caused both engines to flame out despite them being certified to meeting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards for water ingestion. At this point, the crew recognized that it was unlikely that they would regain power. Miraculous Plane Landing on New Orleans Levee From:Nowhere to Land 3m 49s; HD; TV-14; A severe thunderstorm forced a Boeing 737 to attempt an emergency landing on the most unlikely, impossible place: a New Orleans levee. They were too far away from New Orleans International Airport to make a deadstick landing. TACA Flight 110 was an international scheduled airline flight operated by TACA Airlines, traveling from Belize to New Orleans. The aircraft suffered mild hail damage, and its right-side (number 2) engine was damaged from overheating. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-3T0 (tail number N75356, serial number 23838), had first flown on 26 January 1988, and had been in service with TACA for about two months. Passing 16,500 feet, both CFM-56 engines flamed out due to heavy rain and hail. The aircraft was towed from the levee into the Michoud facility grounds where the … All onboard survived. He cited his experience and a bit of luck for a “beautiful, beautiful landing.” After landing, he told a funny story of a passenger rushing off the jet right as the flight attendant opened the chute. While armchair critics might question their next move, according to the NTSB report, they elected to shut down both engines to avoid further engine damage. Thank you! An airstart did not work. This is where TACA 110 took off from, rather than risking further damage to the aircraft as well as potential FOD damage by operating it from the unprepared levee (the FOD hazard being much more substantial on takeoff, since it had no working engines … Passengers enjoyed the relative quiet of a new Boeing 737-300 enroute. HVY RAIN, HAIL & TURBC WERE ENCTRD. Hell of a pilot.Southwest picked this plane up and registered it under N697SW. While both restarted, the crew could not get either engine to advance beyond flight idle. ATC attempted to guide the stricken jet towards New Orleans’ Lakefront Airport. Dardano put the plane down so gently they were able to ship it to a runway and fly it off with minimal repairs.If I remember right, he lost his eye at another airline when he was hit by crossfire while taxiing before takeoff. The flight entered clouds at FL 300 ((30,000 feet / 9,100 metres), the crew selecting "continuous ignition" and turning on engine anti-ice to protect their turbofan engines from the effects of precipitation and icing, either of which is capable of causing a flameout, where the engines lose all power. Referencing a thread yesterday about emergency landings, and comments that were made about a TACA 737 performing an engines-out emergency landing on a levee in eastern New Orleans in May of 1988. During this time, Lopez spotted a grass NTSB investigators determined that the aircraft had inadvertently flown into a level 4 To avoid similar problems in the future, the engine manufacturer, Initially, it was planned to remove the wings and transport the airplane to a repair facility by barge, but Boeing engineers and test pilots decided to perform an engine change on site.

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